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        <CreaDate>20201215</CreaDate>
        
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        <idAbs>World Countries is a detailed dataset of country level boundaries that is useful at both large and small scales. It has been designed to be used as a basemap and includes a Disputed Boundaries layer that can be used to edit boundaries to fit a user's needs and view of the political world.

World Countries includes fields for local and official names and country codes, along with continent and display fields. Particularly useful are the Land_Type and Land_Rank fields that separate polygons based on their size. These fields are useful for rendering at different scales by providing the ability to turn off small islands that may clutter small-scale views.

World Countries (Disputed Boundaries) provides a layer that accompanies World Countries for dealing with disputed boundaries, or boundaries that consist of a fence or other feature. Included are fields with notes identifying disputed boundaries and description information.</idAbs>
        
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            <keyword>boundaries</keyword>
            
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        <idPurp>World Countries represents the boundaries for the countries of the world as they existed in December 2019.</idPurp>
        
        <idCredit>Esri, Garmin International, Inc. (formerly DeLorme Publishing Company, Inc.), U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (The World Factbook)</idCredit>
        
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